Under Commonwealth laws, there are steep fines for people who ride or walk in a Commonwealth reserve and go off track

The management board could have all walking tracks on the rock removed, making any climb illegal
In practical terms, a chain currently in place could be removed, which would make climbing Uluru physically difficult

Under NT legislation, sacred sites including Uluru have special protections, and a serious breach of the Sacred Sites Act can lead to penalties of more than $60,000 and two years' jail

But I'm still sad. I've always wanted to climb Uluru by another way besides the tourist route. There's probably dozens of others easy ways that could be soloed. Being up high, alone, on all that red rock, with desert to the horizon would have been amazing.

I disagree. Having walked around Uluru, playing a hypothetical game of "I wonder if I could climb that?", I think there would only be a handful of easy solo routes.

It's difficult to grasp the scale of the place until you've been there. One tends to assume an easy, rounding slab, starting with a 5m vertical step to be casually bouldered. In reality, the base is guarded by a 20m high, gently overhanging wall most of the way around......except for the vast sections with multipitch vertical walls.

On 6-Nov-2017 One Day Hero wrote:>On 6-Nov-2017 Rocksinmyhead wrote:>>>There's probably dozens of others easy ways that could>>be soloed.>>I disagree. Having walked around Uluru, playing a hypothetical game of>"I wonder if I could climb that?", I think there would only be a handful>of easy solo routes.>>It's difficult to grasp the scale of the place until you've been there.>One tends to assume an easy, rounding slab, starting with a 5m vertical>step to be casually bouldered. In reality, the base is guarded by a 20m>high, gently overhanging wall most of the way around......except for the>vast sections with multipitch vertical walls.

From the numerous rescues at Arapiles I've observed and heard about I would largely agree with the sentiments. Though I'm just a fly (climber) on the wall.

>current SES faithful Kieran Loughran said the rescue of his friend Keith, which he was>involved in was both the best and worst of the ARG.

>"Both fast and effective but also operating with wafer-thin safety margins and no backup plan

Heroic and impressive rescues world wide often breech Standard Operating Procedures. The number one rule is not to place rescuers at risk. Yet extreme situations often call for exactly that if you want to save lives.